Of course it will.
The United States dealt with Saddam Hussein as a long-term strategy, and it all started with the Gulf War.
After the end of the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam Hussein and Iran signed a ceasefire agreement.
Although the war between the two countries is over, for Saddam Hussein, the matter is not over!
Before the outbreak of war with Iran in September 1980, Iraq's economic prospects were bright. Oil production reached 3.5 million barrels per day in 1979, and oil revenues were $21 billion in 1979 and $27 billion in 1980 due to record oil prices.
At the outbreak of the war, Iraq had accumulated about $35 billion in foreign exchange reserves.
But the Iran-Iraq war depleted Iraq's foreign exchange reserves, destroyed its economy and left behind more than $40 billion in foreign debt.
In order to fight this war, Saddam Hussein turned a moderately rich oil-rich country into the world's most indebted poor country at that time, and not only the living standards of ordinary people had fallen a lot, but Iraq's finances were also facing collapse.
So, at this time, Saddam Hussein decided to occupy Kuwait.
How could Kuwait, which had been in peace for a long time, be able to withstand the Iraqi tigers and wolves who had experienced the test of the Iran-Iraq War, and the Kuwaiti capital was occupied 14 hours after the war began?
But this aggression sowed the seeds of Saddam Hussein's trouble.
If Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is allowed to serve willfully, it is likely that Saudi Arabia will not be guaranteed, which will seriously affect US oil interests in the Middle East.
Therefore, after the successful resolution of this crisis, it is not only the safety of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, but also the best opportunity for the United States to establish absolute hegemony in the Middle East.
So the United States gathered a number of countries, a total of nearly 1 million coalition troops to launch a counterattack against Iraq, which is the famous Gulf War.
The war ended with a complete victory for the U.S.-led coalition.
After the war, the United States did not take Saddam Hussein's regime lightly in Iraq.
Saddam Hussein had made his ambitions clear in this war.
Therefore, the United States will not let him go.
After the end of the Gulf War, the United States began the toughest sanctions in Iraq's history, which caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children to be malnourished.
According to the World Bank, Iraq's gross domestic product fell by 80 per cent from $179.9 billion in 1990 to $36.6 billion in 2004.
The sanctions lasted for 10 years, during which the United States sent spies to actively contact senior generals of Saddam's regime in Iraq, promising heavy money and promising to honor after overthrowing Saddam's regime.
In this way, by 2003, the United States was ready for everything and owed only the east wind, and the so-called east wind was a reason to attack Iraq.
Since this situation has been laid out for more than a decade, how can the United States let Saddam Hussein go?
If Saddam Hussein allowed U.S. troops to enter Iraq freely, the first thing the U.S. military would do would be to arrest him and overthrow the regime at a minimer cost!
In the final moments before the outbreak of the Iraq war, then-US President George W. Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein: Saddam Hussein must step down and leave Iraq within 48 hours, or the United States will take military action against Iraq. From the ultimatum issued by the United States to Saddam, we can see that the United States has never wanted to check whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, the United States wants Saddam to step down, so the correct way for Saddam to compromise with the United States should be to step down and leave Iraq, rather than let American troops enter Iraq to check anything.
(Saddam Hussein and his cronies)
Some people think that the United States launched the war against Iraq for oil, and some people think that the United States launched the war against Iraq because Saddam Hussein did not use the dollar to settle his own oil transactions, but these reasons are unreliable. The main purpose of the United States in launching the Iraq war is to overthrow Saddam's regime, and the United States tries to export its values in the Middle East by force. In the eyes of the U.S. government at the time, if Iraq could be made a typical example of democracy, it could serve as a good example in the complex Middle East, which would be very beneficial to the strategy of the United States.
(Saddam Hussein's trial)
There are dozens of countries in the Middle East, but due to religious and historical factors, the Middle East is the poorest place in global democracy, Israel is the only modern liberal democracy in the Middle East, but Israel is a Jewish country, the Arabs in the Middle East will only regard Israel as their opponent rather than as an example to learn from, so the United States hopes to create another Israel among the Arab countries in the Middle East. Iraq because of the ruler like Saddam, Saddam's anti-American slogans have been shouted relatively high-profile, even after the United States encountered the "911 terrorist attack" he was still clapping, Saddam's behavior made George W. Bush unbearable, so the US government was determined to overthrow Saddam's regime and by the way, Iraq was used as a test ground for its own values promotion.
After understanding the reasons why the United States launched the Iraq War, we can understand that whether Iraq wanted to resist the US attack or not, Saddam Hussein must step down, because the goal of the United States in launching the Iraq War was to overthrow Saddam's regime. Some people are always entangled in whether Saddam Hussein will step down, this actually does not make much sense, for the Iraqi people, Saddam Hussein is not indispensable, now that Saddam Hussein is dead, aren't the Iraqi people still living well? Saddam Hussein was bound to fight the U.S. military, because he did not want to give up power easily under U.S. pressure, Saddam was fighting for his own interests, and in the end, although he failed, he may not have any regrets.
(Saddam Hussein arrested)
Of course, if Saddam Hussein had given up resistance before the Iraq war, it would have allowed Iraq to avoid a war and save many lives, including Saddam Hussein himself. Saddam Hussein accumulated a lot of wealth during his presidency of Iraq, and he could have chosen to spend the rest of his life in a European country with a lot of money, but Saddam Hussein was not interested in this life. Saddam's character determined his fate, he spent more than half of his time in power waging war, and he insisted on attacking the United States in the later stages of the war, and he was eventually overthrown by the United States by means of war.